CHAMPCAR/CART: Denver: Forsythe Racing race report

Allmendinger Wins Action-Packed Race At Denver
Denver, Colorado -- Sunday, August 13, 2006 -- In front of his
hometown fans, A.J. Allmendinger won an action-packed Denver Grand Prix
Sponsored by Bridgestone today and moved up to second position...

Allmendinger Wins Action-Packed Race At Denver

Denver, Colorado -- Sunday, August 13, 2006 -- In front of his
hometown fans, A.J. Allmendinger won an action-packed Denver Grand Prix
Sponsored by Bridgestone today and moved up to second position in the
Championship, marking Allmendinger's fourth win in the last six
races. The Forsythe duo of Allmendinger and Paul Tracy were running
first and second until the last turn of the last lap when Tracy had
contact with Sebastien Bourdais and was not able to finish the race.

Allmendinger struggled during the first laps of the race as the handling
of his car took a turn for the worse when his soft Bridgestone
"Red" alternate tires started to wear off. The Forsythe Team
decided to bring him into the pits early to change tires. With his new
Bridgestone "Black" sticker tires he managed to catch and
pass race leader Sebastien Bourdais and never looked back. Allmendinger
built a 20 second lead and captured the fourth win of his career.

Tracy had an equally impressive run today after being spun out at the
start of the race and falling to the back of the pack. He managed to
every single car to move into second behind his teammate. It was looking
like another Forsythe 1-2 until a fuel pickup problem surfaced in
Tracy's car with 3 laps to go which severely slowed him down. He
managed to hold position until the last turn of the last lap when
Sebastien Bourdais tried a move on him and the two cars touched. Both
were taken out of the race only a few hundred yards from the checkered
flag.

A.J. Allmendinger

"A lot of people were struggling on the red tires. We just never
really got our car to really work with the tires. Sebastien started on
the new set of blacks. First 10, 12 laps, I was hanging right with him.
We were easily pulling away from everybody else."

"All of a sudden within a lap, two laps, the tires just went to
junk and we were struggling. I was running 64's at the end. Just a
great call by Michael Cannon, the whole engineering staff at Forsythe, to
pull me in right there instead of trying to run a couple more laps and
pit with everybody else, because if we would have done that we never
would have had a chance at the second stint.

We had a great pit stop by my crew guys, as always. Once we got back out
there, Sebastien was right in front of me again. I was just kind of
pacing myself because the first five, six laps the blacks were about the
same as the reds. All of a sudden the car came alive. I could see
Sebastien just really struggling hard on the reds. It was more than
anything just a matter of trying to time the pass out right. After I
passed him I just paced myself to save tires in case a yellow came out.
I'm really happy to win my home race and to see so many fans
cheering for me up in the stands is an amazing feeling."

Paul Tracy

"We had fuel pickup problems the last five laps of the race. It
was pretty frustrating. I had a seven second lead but when the engine
started to cutout Sebastien was able to close in. He made his move in the
last corner of the last lap on the outside, and when you already have
35-point lead in the championship and want take that risk over two points
that's what you get. To be honest, I don't feel bad for him;
he's taken me out plenty of times so I don't feel too bad
about something like that on the last turn of the last lap."

The next stop in the 2006 Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series
Powered by Ford will take place in Montreal August 25-27.